From: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke@octa4.net.au>
To: David Means <dmeans@the-means.net>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Printing locally.
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 00:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020303175530.A316@BSALTERDUKE1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1015130447.12379.1.camel@milo>; from dmeans@the-means.net on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:40:47PM -0500
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:40:47PM -0500, David Means wrote:
> I don't have my cygwin machine handy, so I've got to ask:
>
> how about this:
>
> cat a.txt > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1
>
> that's probably not the ultimate solution, but does it work?
No. It reports nothing and does nothing. There is nothing in any printer
queue.
PRINT a.txt
reports that <full path>/a.txt is currently being printed, but again
nothing happens and there is nothing in the queues.
Thanks for the suggestion. I remain very puzzled.
Brian.
> David
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 21:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:45:57AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> > > Brian:
> > >
> > > I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1
> > >
> > > -paul mcferrin
> >
> > There is no /dev directory! "which lpt1" gives "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/lpt1",
> > but typing "lpt1 file" gives permission denied and looking in WINNT with
> > Windows Explorer I do not find it. I'm even more puzzled.
> >
> > Cheers, Brian.
> >
> > [my original query about how to print to a local printer deleted.]
> >
> > --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-03 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-01 23:23 Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-01 23:44 ` Paul McFerrin
2002-03-02 18:54 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-02 20:40 ` David Means
2002-03-03 0:27 ` Brian Salter-Duke [this message]
2002-03-03 2:50 fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
2002-03-03 16:25 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-04 8:26 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-03-05 1:24 ` Brian Salter-Duke
2002-03-05 8:17 ` Rick Rankin
2002-03-05 13:07 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2002-03-05 15:39 Karl M
2002-03-06 15:03 Heribert Dahms
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